Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

- Ralph, Blum

Best Quotes about Knowledge

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Farrar, Austin

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Eckhart, Meister

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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Wiesel, Elie

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Back, Sudie

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.